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[FROM SOTHEBY'S] A FAMILLE VERTE JAR POT JIAQING MARK 17TH/C.

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[FROM SOTHEBY'S] A FAMILLE VERTE JAR POT JIAQING MARK 17TH/C.
HEIGHT 21/CM WIDTH 10/CM [SOTHEBY'S NEW YORK 20/MARCH/2013 LOT 226] Brightly enameled round the body with a continuous scene of nine boys at play, each holding auspicious objects, in an elegant garden with ornamental rocks and flowering plants, all set between lime-green ground ruyi -bordered bands of scrolling lotus and sanduo at the shoulder and lotus scroll and persimmons round the base, the interior and base of an enameled turquoise, seal mark in iron-red.

Provenance : Acquired in Ohio in 1994.

Note : The shape and decoration of this present is related to the imperial kilns at Jingdezhen during the early years of Jiaqing's reign. Vases in this group usually have a lantern or ovoid shape and have scenes set between variously-colored ground borders of lotus scrolls.